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Strike a woman, strike a rock : fighting for freedom in South Africa / Barbara Hutmacher MacLean.
Author
MacLean, Barbara Hutmacher, 1926-2019
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Language
English
Published/Created
Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, [2004]
©2004
Description
viii, 339 pages ; 22 cm
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DT1948 .M33 2004
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Anti-apartheid activists
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South Africa
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Women anti-apartheid activists
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Summary note
In this trenchant and compelling book, Barbara Hutmacher MacLean reveals the lives of a cross section of South African women who courageously opposed apartheid in ways the world never knew: blacks who risked death and torture by opposing the government's racial laws and whites who openly protested the same policies which gave them privilege. In the early 1970s MacLean, a journalist from California, arrived in East London, South Africa, to write for The Daily Dispatch. The editor, Donald.
Woods, was a friend of Steve Biko, a black leader under house arrest in a town nearby. The author spoke with Biko and her husband photographed him, just weeks before his death in prison in 1977. That same year, the author and her husband were ordered to leave the country.
MacLean returned to a new South Africa in early 1998. Building upon contacts, she found women in various parts of the country who had been part of the struggle against apartheid. The women she met told her of the past, the violent years leading to change, their roles in the new government, and their hopes for the future. They spoke from Parliament, from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, from provincial government, at the site of a women's self-help housing project, in a township.
School, and from the offices of President Nelson Mandela. As these women speak to MacLean about their fight for freedom and the struggle against apartheid, it is apparent that South Africa would not have evolved as it has without the firm foundation laid by them. Book jacket.
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Includes index.
Contents
Arrival: Pretoria's traffic-choked center looked like Any City U.S.A.
Sue van der Merwe: I've always thought of myself as working to change the country
Trudy Thomas: You've got to stand there, let the storms come and know who you are
Val Viljoen: You didn't think the situation would change. You were so used to it. You just battled on
Ivy Gcina: No, I was not afraid. I was prepared to die actually.
Judy Chalmers: We both felt a part of the struggle in a way we never stepped away from
Noel Robb: We decided to carry on fighting for human rights under the name of the Black Sash
Sheena Duncan: I saw a need for women to work for justice in this country
Jean Pease: If you teach literacy about people's real interests, they learn far quicker
Maureen Jacobs: I began teaching in 1984 in the squatter camps
Susan Conjwa: Being in prison made me more strong, more determined.
Mary Burton (1): Every Saturday and Sunday, we were marching or at public meetings
Mary Burton (2): For two years, I've listened to terrible, terrible stories
Virginia Engel: Secretly I became the link between the ANC and the unions
Elsa Joubert: Everyone said, 'you've torn the veils from our eyes'
Janice Honeyman: Theater so often reflects what's going on in the society
Trudy de Ridder: I did intensive research on children in prison.
EKM Dido: Some in my family are fair, some like me, in between, some are dark
Karen Katts: What I never did expect, was to be able to vote
Sue Power: It's complicated, working out who should be beneficiaries of land being returned
Linda Fortune: District Six meant everything to me. It was my home
Melanie Verwoerd: If there is ever a time to be in Parliament, it is now
Ela Gandhi: My children grew up with us being banned.
Lizzie Abrahams: I've got knowledge to share with other people
Annette Cockburn: The Homestead helps street children reconstruct their shattered lives
Patricia de Lille: We've achieved political freedom. There's still a long way to go
Patricia Matolengwe: Construction is hard work which we, as women, don't know.
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ISBN
1592210759 ((cloth))
9781592210756 ((cloth))
1592210767 ((pbk.))
9781592210763 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2003022917
OCLC
53307673
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